Speaking of sizzling hot topics, there’s the question of continued federal tax deductions for charitable donations to the arts and other non-profit organizations, a topic raised over the weekend by HBO’s Bill Maher and garnering this thoughtful response from 2005 MacArthur Fellow Aaron P. Dworkin, a member of the National Council on the Arts, as well as Founder and President of The Sphinx Foundation–an organization dedicated to promoting greater diversity in the arts.

Read it at your leisure here. And thanks to Megan Meister for the link!